| Two-factor credit-card safety for online transactions My friend and colleague Jurgen Pabel was one of our first graduates from the Norwich University Master of Science in Information Assurance. He is an active participant in our alumni discussion group and a frequent and welcome correspondent. Here, I present his latest suggestions (entirely his with minor edits and additions). Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers. 'Cold Boot' encryption hack unlikely, says Microsoft Users can keep thieves from stealing encrypted data by changing some settings in Windows, a Microsoft product manager said as he downplayed the threat posed by new research that shows how attackers can inspect a "ghost ... Cold Boot Attack put to test After researchers at Princeton University showed how they could dig up the contents of a computer's memory just minutes after the machine had been turned off using a "Cold Boot", it was only a matter of time before hackers began testing the technique. Cold bits as a security bypass Columnist Scott Bradner discusses how worried you should really be about a new disk-encryption bypass exposed by Princeton security researchers. Free tool from HP scans for Flash vulnerabilities HP has released a free development tool that finds vulnerabilities in Flash, Adobe System's widely used but occasionally buggy interactive Web technology. Site Hacks, Fake Security Rakes in Serious Cash Here's a recipe for illicit online riches: Spam filters block legitimate e-mail, finds test Many antispam products still block an inconvenient amount of legitimate e-mail, a new test of leading products has suggested. Ukrainian cybercriminals raked in $10K/day, Finjan reports Ten thousand eight hundred dollars per day for cybercrime jockeys? That's what security vendor Finjan says it witnessed during its 16-day infiltration of a cybercrime operation that involved selling bogus antivirus software. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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